Uganda

The entire population of Uganda is at risk of malaria, which accounts for 34 percent of outpatient visits and 37 percent of hospital admissions. With the scale-up of malaria prevention and treatment interventions, progress in malaria control has been made throughout Uganda. All-cause under-five mortality has dropped 53 percent; from 137 deaths per 1,000 live births in 2006 to 64 in 2016. Uganda’s efforts against malaria are guided by the Malaria Reduction Strategic Plan for 2014–2020, which calls for a rapid and synchronized nationwide scale-up of cost-effective interventions to achieve universal coverage of malaria prevention and treatment.

Malaria Operational Plans

The Malaria Operational Plans below are detailed 1-year implementation plans for PMI focus countries. Each plan reviews the current status of malaria control and prevention policies and interventions, identifies challenges and unmet needs to achieve PMI goals, and provides a description of planned PMI-funded activities. Each Malaria Operational Plan has been endorsed by the U.S. Global Malaria Coordinator and reflects collaborative discussions with the national malaria control programs and partners in country. Changes to these plans are reflected in revised postings.

Stories from the Field

Having found that football can effectively engage young men around malaria messaging, MAPD is now planning a nine-month-long second phase of the intervention, built around Premier League football matches.

In Uganda’s private health care sector, diagnosis of malaria is often presumptive and patients receive neither a rapid diagnostic test nor microscopy - despite their proven effectiveness. To better understand why such powerful tools are not used, PMI teamed up with USAID's Global Development Lab and MIT in a groundbreaking research study.

In Northern Uganda’s Amolatar District, four young adults are dancing and singing to change the way their community views indoor residual spraying (IRS) and, in turn, improving the overall health of their communities.

A well-trained health workforce is essential to achieving PMI’s objectives and goal, which is why the U.S. President’s Malaria Initiative supports the training, equipping, and supervising of community health workers like Kasyonga Pharaoh, a 29-year-old voluntary community health worker in Bukinda, Uganda.

In Northern Uganda’s Amolatar District, four young adults are dancing and singing to change the way their community views indoor residual spraying (IRS) and, in turn, improving the overall health of their communities.

Evidence-based research and routine monitoring are essential to sound malaria control programming. Understanding the behavior of the mosquitoes that carry malaria requires precise data on the vector’s density, feeding time, location, and its resistance to insecticides.

In 2009, the Uganda Indoor Residual Spraying (IRS) Project Phase II – began conducting IRS in the area. The project is funded by the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

To protect the most vulnerable populations from malaria-carrying mosquitoes,PMI and the Global Fund have supported the Uganda Government to distribute insecticide-treated mosquito nets through antenatal facilities.

Uganda is making great strides in reducing its malaria burden. According to preliminary results from the 2014–2015 Malaria Indicator Survey, the prevalence of parasitemia in children under five years of age has declined by 55 percent, from 42 percent in 2009 to 19 percent in 2014.

Although the most effective and equitable way to reach universal coverage quickly is through mass distribution of free nets, these campaigns are extremely labor intensive, requiring months of planning and coordination with partners, ranging from the large multilateral organizations to local NGOs.

Malaria is the leading threat to the health of Uganda's population and, according to the Ministry of Health, is responsible for approximately 40 percent of outpatient visits, 25 percent of inpatient visits, and nearly half of all deaths in children under five.

Health workers in Uganda are getting on-the-job training in how to properly manage artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs), considered among the most effective ways today to cure people who have been diagnosed with malaria.

At the beginning of March 2006, 15-month old Komakec Emanuel from Uganda got very sick. His mother Oroma Monica took him to the local health clinic near where they live in Ongako Internally Displaced Camp (IDP) in Gulu district in northern Uganda.

Contracts & Agreements

Listed below are contracts, agreements and implementing partner reports for the PMI focus countries. Documents have been redacted by the awardee at USAID's request to remove any information the awardee considers proprietary.

Related News

Thousands of refugees and Ugandan nationals are set to benefit from a distribution of more than a quarter of a million mosquito nets in refugee settlements across the country thanks to a donation from the US President’s Malaria Initiative.

The U.S. Mission Uganda and the Government of Uganda's Ministry of Health today marked a significant milestone in the fight against malaria in 10 northern districts. Over the past three years, the project has helped protect three million people from malaria.

Today, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced that it will collaborate with the Government of Uganda to implement a 19-district insecticide re-treatment program for 715,000 bed nets to protect more than 1 million residents from malaria.